Dictionary.com meaning of Totalitarian:
to·tal·i·tar·i·an [toh-tal-i-tair-ee-uhn]
–adjective
1. of or pertaining to a centralized government that does not tolerate parties of differing opinion and that exercises dictatorial control over many aspects of life.
2. exercising control over the freedom, will, or thought of others; authoritarian; autocratic.
–noun
3. an adherent of totalitarianism.
Japan:
Japan arrested critics, they imposed censorship, and they employed a secret police to find and punish "enemies of the state" basically everything listed in the first definition of totalitarian, so I believe that Japan was totalitarian.
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